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What’s the role?

As a technical, hands on. Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET), your job is to participate in the manual and automation testing of our web-based application. You will be guided by an Engineer Manager in a well-established team of engineers. Your role will be that of a “Full-Stack” Test Engineer – someone who has a strong appreciation and skills in software engineering closely tied to testing. We assume the prospect candidate has experience in manual and automated testing (performance testing is a plus) with a solid technical skillset capable of building tools and test frameworks with tests as needed.

Tech Stack: Node.js, webdriver.io, Mocha, Chai, Cucumber, GitLab, Sauce Labs, K6

Responsibilities:

Develop software using established development and continuous integration practices
Conduct peer code reviews and collaborations
Participate in setting team standards and best practices
Creates and/or refines development strategies & plans.
Define objectives and recommended approach within constraints of context.
Develops application code and corresponding white box tests based on features / requirements / stories.
Executes the appropriate amount of testing needed while delivering on cadence.
Utilizes relevant testing technologies and frameworks.
Creates and executes automated tests with some guidance.
Understands and can explain frameworks and test automation strategy to others.
Within 3 to 6 months, has a solid understanding of the key systems within their business domain and understands the data flows and interdependencies for the key systems in their domain.
Contribute to an agile team by driving user story analysis and feature grooming, designing, and developing thorough test scripts
Automated manual test data creation process by building custom API Routes
Proven experience on writing complex API tests which interface with upstream services or databases
Design and implement manual test suites by writing test plan/test cases / etc.
Attend and contribute to sprint planning and take ownership of testing responsibility to ensure successful product releases
Design, implement and maintain cross-platform test automation scripts
Maintain the functional test portion of the Continuous Integration pipeline
Develop and maintain BDD (Behavior Driven Development) test scenarios and regression plans
Participate in full test development life cycle including requirements analysis and design
Work with developers to provide additional research and debugging of issues when more information is needed to resolve problems
Apply engineering best practices to analyze and develop software solutions

What this role needs:

Experience:

3+ years of coding experience in Javascript / Node.js
2+ years of professional experience as a QA Automation Engineer working in an agile environment
Understanding of version control using git
Experience with Testing Automation Tools and Frameworks such as Webdriver.io , Cucumber, Sauce Labs, Mocha, etc.
Experience in how to leverage and configure a CI/CD Pipeline with Gitlab/Jenkins
Capable of leading test automation efforts with minimal supervision
Understanding the software development life cycle and agile/waterfall methodologies
Experience/knowledge of microservice architecture and how to test them individually or as an e2e solution

Test Automation:

Ability to critical think and produce solutions to complex problems
Create and recommend testing tools to improve our automation health

SDETs primarily work with & develop Component and E2E tests within the Planning solutions space

As our scope broadens & we tackle migration work between our test suites, it's good to gain familiarity with the unit & integration test suites for each of our apps.

Support

Be familiar with active Prod issues, and assist with testing, review, or automation changes based on issue priority.
Participate in Production Deploys and Releases
Support Delivery teams with test automation trainings and testing best practices
Actively participate in code review process
Familiar with framework enhancements

Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$93,030.00

Pay Range - End:

$132,900.00

Please note that this is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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